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Originally posted by cmonaussie
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From Qtrly Transcript. I've highlighted in blueDale Conders with Barrenjoey Morning David - I'm wondering if you can just provide sort of like your updated thoughts on the outlook for Orbost processing capacity - like how do we get through this, I guess, polishing unit issue. Is there any other capex that you're thinking needs to be spent to grow production rates from like currently 55 to 57TJ/day? David Maxwell (CEO )Thanks. I'll make a few comments and I'll ask Mike as well to add and to supplement anything that I say. What we've found with Orbost is the plant operates best when it's stable. Getting it into the sweet spot or the stable state and then gradually inching up the rate and we've seen that over the last couple of months. I mentioned we're currently at around 57TJday current cycle which is two absorbers. 57TJ/day, one absorber per week down for two and a half three days for a clean and while that's happening the plant's running at you know 36TJ/day. Once that's determined, as I mentioned in my in the introductory comments, is to commission the solids recovery package that's been installed and we'd expect that to be at the moment probably in the March/April type timing next year purpose of that is to effectively remove the cleaning cycles then you're averaging 60 and cleaning once a year and then at that point it's the time to then say okay well what's the what's the long-term stable rate with the kit as it's currently installed that's where we think about things like the possibility of a third absorber around there are and there are other options
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COE is operating Orbost plant now, and DM has conformed that one absorber is being cleaned every week.
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